Let me start by saying that I have not seen the video, just read the article.

Although I agree with most of you, (I have 2 dogs at home) ALL of you have to understand that stray dogs in that country is reaching epidemic proportions. I was stationed in Northern Iraq (Mosul) for a year, and in that time frame we observed a small pack of dogs become a a huge pack and a menace to aircraft on the runway, vehicles and soldiers alike. Not counting the deseases that they could carry.

The veterinary services had no option than to shoot them collect them and burn them in a pit to try to prevent the spread of deseases. That is the final edstate.

So, I'm not defending the marine's actions, I'm just giving you guys a little background information of the situation.

I agree, it was that way when I was there. We even had a stray that the people in our company befriended. We called him General and he liked to hump your leg... they "the stray enforcement crew" came and took him away in the middle of the night...

Which leads me to...

Then they should be humanely killed by putting bullets through their heads.

Thats what they did to our general. As humane as it can get I suppose. Far from tossing an innocent puppy off a cliff for fun...

...Once upon a time there were Nitros, flybars and frequency pins...

What if the puppy did not die, but now laying there broken battered and cannot move, only feeling pain. Other animals will see this as a meal, further adding to the puppies pain before his demise.
Does not sit well>

Finally learned to fly inverted, Helps if you stand on your head

What if the puppy did not die, but now laying there broken battered and cannot move, only feeling pain. Other animals will see this as a meal, further adding to the puppies pain before his demise.
Does not sit well>

Thats what I was thinking, very sad.

in a strange way, I'm glad the marine has the know-how to kill

Thats what they were trained for, that's the job they were meant to do, specifically, to kill (the enemy) without remorse and do what it takes to achieve victory. If you disagree with this, then perhaps we have the wrong people for the job.

Now it's questionable that the dog was an enemy. The fact that they were in Iraq, where the enemy is located (why else are we in iraq?) can justify that the animal was a munition of the enemy. Example, if you could take out an enemy's bomb depot, wouldn't it make sense to destroy that bomb depot and have no remorse?

(btw, the above was written as theapy after watching the video- I'll probably regret making this post. Makes me sick that we haven't achieved our objective of defeating the enemy to end this war and that the puppy yelped on-route. :mad

Hoagie1, either way, it was a cruel and senseless act upon an innocent animal by a sick individual. Now our adversaries can use this film against us by pointing out how cruel we really are. The whole thing PISSES ME OFF.

Ok, I was sick after seeing the puppy tossed over the cliff. Now I'm really disturbed

I know these guys are under alot of stress over there but there is "NEVER", under "ANY CIRCUMSTANCES",a reason that defensless animals should be treated that way. If they have to humanely destroy animals that's one thing. Torture is quite another. Seeming to enjoy it is even more disturbing.

Sad, Sad day.

Don't blame me, I did'nt vote for him.

What sickening examples of the dark side of human nature. It's appalling that soldiers from any country could be so cruel towards innocent animals -- but that they're American soldiers is especially disturbing.

Horrifying as these revelations are, it's at least good that modern technology enables these stories and those clips to quickly spread far and wide -- there's no escaping the microscope of the web. Hopefully all the right folks will see these disturbing clips and take appropriate action soon.

torturing animals is one step towards torture and mistreatment of humans...

I saw many stray dogs and cats over there. I once had a small kitten follow me around my barracks there. It sucked that I couldn't shelter it and feed it. I could never fathom intentionally hurting any of the strays there.

Stupidity can be cured. Ignorance is for life!

and our presence there is supposed to show Iraqis what it takes to be "civilized"??...

so what if the canine population over there is out of control?? it doesn't give them the right to torture, torment, or inhumanely destroy them.. a few on this thread have already said it themselves... mistreating animals is a precursor to harming human beings... so if we want this violence in the middle east to end, how in the hell is this supposed to help us do that?

don't get me wrong... I'm not saying that by treating the strays humanely it'll end all the violence and totally changed the messed up mentalities of the radicals... but it certainly isn't helping the situation.

what scares me the most is that these incidents are likely only a few of many that occur over there.. I'd like to think these incidents are isolated, but until the puppy incident, how many of these guys have been reprimanded? watch those videos.... how many of their peers tell them to stop?? more importantly, how many of their peers join in on the fun?

The problem with this, besides the abuse itself, is that this small handful of people just caused a very large group to be painted in a negative light by those already looking for any reason at all to do so and gives a propaganda tool to the enemy. That should be a good reason why the military will want to make an example out of them.

What a scumbag!!!!!!!!!!!

-Dave

hmm

Being a Marine one time it sickens me to see this. I agree that they should be made example of. It hurts almost in every way in a negative light. I hope physically the individuals find new levels of pain from old Marine corps I.T. methods along with punishmetnt.

Bottom line is this is not at the level of any Marine to be doing this crap regardless of dog population and stress of combat.

-Cody

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.